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Taste Of Cherry Blu-Ray

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1997
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Genre: Drama
Cast: Homayoun Ershadi
Runtime: 99
Language: Iranian
Release Date: 2020-07-21
Description

The first Iranian film to win the Palme d’Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree to dispose of his body after he commits suicide, a taboo under Islam. Extended conversations with three passengers (a soldier, a seminarian, and a taxidermist) elicit different views of mortality and individual choice. Operating at once as a closely observed, realistic story and a fable populated by archetypal figures, Taste of Cherry challenges the viewer to consider what often goes unexamined in everyday life.